SULU: A Dutch hostage had joined the Abu Sayyaf seven years after he was kidnapped, along with a Swiss, in the southern province of Tawi-Tawi, a police official claimed.

Ewold Horn, 54, from Holland and Lorenzo Vinciguerra from Switzerland were abducted in February 2012 by Abu Sayyaf militants and suspected Moro National Liberation Front members in the coastal village of Parangan in Panglima Sugala town, Tawi-Tawi.

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